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Interco Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $775k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $275,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $250,000 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST LOUIS | $185,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $132,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $130,000 |
| THE MUNY | $125,000 |
| KRAVIS CENTER | $125,000 |
| RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| ST PATRICK CENTER | $115,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY | $110,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $107,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $105,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| SHOW ME SCHOOL | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $858k · revenue +29%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +16%- FPForest Park Forever Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $434k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250k
- MHMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +22%
- BOBOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARKone grant, 2021 · $102k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater St Louis Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Kranzberg Arts Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
- Who funds HOME WORKS - THVP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Pershing Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Graybar Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Interco Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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